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What is the definition of legal?

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The word 'legal' has a few senses or meanings: 1: established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules; 2: having legal efficacy or force; 3: relating to or characteristic of the profession of law; 4: allowed by official rules; 5: of or relating to jurisprudence

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